<p>This overview examines the historical development of mechanizing Indian scripts and the computer processing of Indian languages. While examining possible solutions, the author describes the challenges involved in their design and in exploiting their structural similarity that lead to a unified solution. The focus is on the Devanagari script and Hindi language, and on the technological solutions for processing them.</p><kwd><p>Keywords: Indian language keyboarding, Indian language coding, Indian language display, Indian language processing</p></kwd>

30. B.S. Naik, Typography of Devanagari, Bombay, Directorate of Languages, government of Maharashtra, 1971, vol. 2, pp. 636-639; http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin wa?A2= ind0001&L=indology&D=1&P=20160 , . While researching the history of the Devanagari typewriter, I found information on the history of Rudraprayag (currently part of the state of Uttarakhand) noting that the king of Rudrapayag, Kirti Shah, invented a typewriter for Hindi around 1892 and gave the copyright to an unnamed company (http://rudraprayag.nic.inhistory.htm); further information is not traceable thus far.